Tom Danehy: The Arizona Legislature is still in session, with time to continue their assault on public education (Tucson Weekly)
Well, as one-time acclaimed Arizona prep distance runner Vince Furnier once sang, "School's out ... for summer." But the Arizona Legislature, which hates public schools and which began its marathon session back in the first week of January, is still in session with no end in sight. They're going for some kind of record, apparently unaware that the breaking of certain records is not necessarily a good thing.
Paul Krugman: Rate Stories (NY Times)
I've been getting some questions about the recent rise in long-term interest rates. Those rates are still at levels that would have seemed absurdly low not long ago - but they are up significantly from a few months ago. What should we make of this move?
Charlie Jane Anders: Gender-swapping superhero's creator responds to right-wing backlash (io9)
In SheZow, a 12-year-old boy accidentally puts on a magic ring that turns him into a female superhero, known as SheZow. It's an excuse for lots of fish-out-of-water comedy and some personal growth. Or, if you're Breitbart News, it's a left-wing conspiracy. We talked to SheZow's creator about the controversy.
Lucy Mangan: "Grinny by Nicholas Fisk" (Guardian)
There were three things I was scared of as a child. One - Stuart Simons in class 3T because he did Chinese burns around your neck. Two - germs. And three - zombies. Because they, even more than germs or Stuart, want you dead. This last fear persists. I recently accidentally saw I Am Legend and had to be carried out of the cinema, prostrate with terror, by the time the awful things came bursting through the lab.
Teeny Tiny Meets Teenage Whiney (Not Always Right)
(There is a young couple in my check-out line, followed by a handful of teenagers. The man is quite a bit taller than the woman, and he's fairly muscular and intimidating. She's very small, and unassuming. The teenagers are making a number of snide, extremely explicit comments to her.)
Walden Robert Cassotto started as a songwriter for Connie Francis, then recorded his own first million-seller in 1958. By what name is he more commonly known?
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
The show was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, and won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it ranked second on TV Guide's list of television's greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
I Love Lucy.
Alan J wrote:
I Love Lucy
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
I love Lucy
Adam answered:
Well, that was my first thought, but I wasn't sure: I Love Lucy.
Sally said:
"I Love Lucy" was the first scripted TV program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience.
Don't know about anyone else, but I sure loved her!
Monday night, 9 to 9:30 PM. Everyone was there...
Tuesday morning, everyone compared notes.
PS: I am suffering from the 'first heat of the season' funk.
Since I keep my home so cool in the winter, when the heat comes in, I just wilt. Groan, moan, mumble, grumble...
But geeze, it's OVER 90o, hitting 92o high yesterday in Central Park (trees). They need to come here and measure the temp in MY house, never mind some park!!!
Marian replied:
I Love Lucy
Dale of Heating up (good for my t'maters) Diamond Springs, Norcali, responded:
I Love Lucy, still one of my favourite TV shows. Check out these accomplishments:
Lucille Désirée Ball was the first woman to own a film studio as the head of Desilu
Lucy and Desi pioneered the three-camera technique, now a sitcom standard
I Love Lucy was the most watched show in the U.S. in four of its six seasons, the first to end its run at the top of the ratings
I Love Lucy is syndicated across the world
The show was the first scripted TV program shot on 35 mm film in front a of a live studio audience (and won five Emmys)
Lucy has 114 film titles to her name.
It was a beautiful late afternoon summer's day in early September '85 when I was piloting my Coast Guard boat back to St. Ignace from a long trip out into northern Lake Michigan for some offshore lighthouse maintenance. Bright sunshine, the water FAC (flat-ass calm; an unofficial CG acronym), the crew a-dozin' behind me in the cabin. No sound but for the hypnotically buzzing twin 275hp outboards pushing the 34' long boat along at 40 knots and the occasional low volume radio traffic. Sitting back relaxed in the coxswain chair from the long day, with only one hand on the wheel, it was as mellow and serene a situation one could have at the moment. Trance-like. As I was approaching the Mackinac Bridge to pass underneath mid-span, at about a half mile or so, the bridge loomed large ahead of me. Looking out ahead of me at the bridge and up at the span, suddenly I had this vivid image in my mind of what a body would look like tumbling end over end from the main deck 200 feet to the water. I could see it. I remember how odd that thought was to me at the moment. I had passed under the bridge many times before and never had such a thing occur... The next day the Mackinac Bridge recorded the first suicide jumper since it was completed in '57. An elderly man from the metro-Detroit area had driven the 250 miles, or so, up and parked his car in the middle of the bridge and jumped over the side. 28 years since the bridge opened and the first ever suicide. Coincidence, you say? Maybe... But, to this day, I sincerely believe that I had envisioned that actual event happening well less than 24 hours beforehand. Yes, I believe I had a premonition and when we were notified I was extremely shaken. A CG SAR boat (not me) was immediately dispatched and the man's body was eventually recovered... I had never experienced anything like that before, or since. But, I was in the right place, at the right time, in the right state-of-mind and environment, and it happened. Think what you will, but I saw it happen before it did and I will always believe that...
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Elementary', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Seth MacFarlane hosting, music by Frank Ocean (original air date: 09/15/12).
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bet On Your Baby', followed by a RERUN'Motive', then a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', 'Storage Wars Texas', another 'Storage Wars Texas', still another 'Storage Wars Texas', yet another 'Storage Wars Texas', 'American Hoggers', and another 'American Hoggers'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', followed by the movie 'Titanic'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 1
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 4 - La Riviera
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[12:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Natural Selection
[1:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Instinct
[2:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Variation Under Nature
[3:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Effects of External Conditions
[4:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 5 - Conditions of Existence
[5:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Variations Under Domestication
[6:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
[7:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Entangled Bank
[8:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Unconscious Selection
[9:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful NEW
[10:00PM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 10 NEW
[11:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Unconscious Selection
[12:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
[1:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 10
[2:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Unconscious Selection
[3:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
[4:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 10
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'Jerry Maguire'.
Comedy Central has the movie '50 First Dates', followed by the movie 'Dinner For Schmucks', then the movie 'Role Models'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) -The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[7:30AM] Event Horizon
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges -Woman Haters
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges -Of Cash and Hash
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges -Baby Sitters' Jitters
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges -Bedlam in Paradise
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges -Blunder Boys
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges -Commotion on the Ocean
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Pilot
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Red Dress
[1:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Home Alone 4
[1:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Shame
[2:00PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) -The Much Funnier Second Episode
[3:15PM] Event Horizon
[5:15PM] The Core
[8:00PM] V for Vendetta
[10:45PM] Collateral Damage
[1:00AM] V for Vendetta
[3:45AM] Five Fingers
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang! -Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Looks and Books
[7:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-The Garage Door
[8:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Chokin and Tokin
[9:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers
[10:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Noshing and Moshing
[11:00AM] Wendy and Lucy
[12:30PM] Ran
[3:30PM] Next Floor
[3:45PM] A River Runs Through It
[5:45PM] The City of Your Final Destination
[8:00PM] Dead Man Walking
[10:00PM] The Professional
[11:45PM] The Business Trip
[12:00AM] Eloïse's Lover
[1:45AM] The City of Your Final Destination
[4:00AM] The Professional
[5:45AM] The Business Trip (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Evolution', followed by the movie 'The Ruins'.
Singers Carole King and James Taylor take the stage during the Boston Strong benefit concert at the Boston TD Garden, May 30, 2013. Proceeds from the concert will go to the One Fund, which was established in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings to help survivors and victims' families.
Photo by Gretchen Ertl
Hollywood actor Danny Glover has made an appearance at a union protest in downtown Johannesburg.
Glover, also a labor rights activist, is in South Africa as part of a trade union delegation from the United States that seeks international support for auto workers in Canton, Mississippi. The workers want to form a union at an auto manufacturing plant operated by Japanese company Nissan in Canton.
On Thursday, Glover attended protests by South Africa's Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union that drew hundreds of protesters. They want police officials to improve administrative staff pay and work conditions
Glover was joined on his trip by Bob King, president of the United Auto Workers union. The two were invited by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa.
Musicians Stevie Wonder (R) and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds greet each other at the ceremony where songwriter and music producer David Foster was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California May 31, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The Haiti humanitarian group founded by Hollywood actor Sean Penn announced Friday that it will sponsor five Haitian runners so they can compete in the New York City Marathon in November.
Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization will accept the top three men and two women finishers in a rare half-marathon that will wind through the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Sunday.
Penn founded J/P HRO shortly after the 2010 earthquake, and has since become an ambassador-at-large for Haiti. His charity has relocated most of the displaced people from a camp on a golf course in Port-au-Prince - one of many such camps in the capital - and demolished the National Palace, which collapsed in the temblor.
J/P HRO will secure sponsors to cover airfare, visa fees and lodging for the runners. The group will also support the Haiti team as it trains with the Haitian Amateur Athletics Federation for the marathon.
Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel could fetch more than $1.2 million at auction next month.
The six exercise books contain the text of "Murphy" as well as notes, doodles and sketches of figures including James Joyce and Charlie Chaplin.
Sotheby's books specialist Peter Selley said Friday that the 800-page volume written in 1935-36 was "unquestionably the most important manuscript" by a modern British or Irish novelist to appear at auction for decades.
Its many revisions give insights into Beckett's creative process. There are eight rejected versions of the novel's opening line - "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
James Taylor, left, and Jimmy Buffett perform at the Boston Strong Concert: An Evening of Support and Celebration at the TD Garden on Thursday, May 30, 2013 in Boston.
Photo by Bizuayehu Tesfaye
The Roots are officially living large in their hometown.
Members of the house band for NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in New York returned to their roots in Philadelphia on Friday for the dedication of a multistory mural in their honor.
The massive artwork occupies the back wall of a charter school on the street where the Grammy Award-winning band once busked for change after its founding in 1992.
"This is an amazing turnaround that on South Street we're getting immortalized some 21 years later," Roots drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson said.
The mural, titled "Legendary," is a colorful collage of images including portraits, cassette tapes and musical instruments that traces the history of the hip-hop group. It's one of more than 3,600 pieces of art created by the city's Mural Arts Program.
Songwriter and music producer David Foster touches his star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California May 31, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly said Friday that she's offended by a male colleague's suggestion that children of working mothers don't fare as well as children with stay-at-home moms.
A Pew Research Center study released this week showing that women are now the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of households with children ignited a sharp debate on Fox with two of the network's most prominent women taking on male colleagues. It culminated in an electric on-air exchange Friday among Kelly, Fox contributor Erick Erickson and anchor Lou Dobbs.
"What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist-in-chief?" Kelly said to Erickson.
Dobbs had convened a panel with three other men who bemoaned the study's findings Wednesday on the Fox Business Network. Juan Williams said the study showed that "something's gone terribly wrong in American society and it's hurting our children." Pollster Doug Schoen suggested that the social order is being undermined.
Fox prime-time host Greta Van Susteren blogged in response: "Have these men lost their minds?" She wrote that the next thing they'll have "is a segment to discuss eliminating women's right to vote."
An actor dressed as the King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV waves to people during a re-enactment of his ceremonial royal procession with the coronation jewels from Prague to Karlstejn Castle May 31, 2013.
Photo by David W Cerny
Tally another big win for billionaire Donald Trump in his legal battle with an 87-year-old who claimed "The Apprentice" star cheated her in a skyscraper-condo deal.
A federal judge in Chicago decisively sided with Trump on Friday on two outstanding allegations, following last week's related civil trial in which jurors also gave the nod to the real estate magnate.
In her 38-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve agreed with Trump that Jacqueline Goldberg was "a sophisticated" investor who could not plausibly claim to have been duped. The Evanston woman alleged Trump promised her profit sharing if she bought two condos at the glitzy Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, but said he reneged after she committed to buy.
Goldberg - who the judge noted has a master's degree in accounting - knew or should have known the risk of the profit-sharing deal being withdrawn, the judge said. Goldberg signed her contract in 2006 before the hotel-condo was completed and so, the judge said, Trump may well have had "understandable" business reasons for altering the contract terms.
This is an undated image made available Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Christie's London of the interior of T.S. Eliot and his wife Valerie's apartment in London. A multimillion-dollar trove of works by artists including J.M.W. Turner, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Winston Churchill that were owned by poet T.S. Eliot's widow will be sold in London later this year, Christie's auction house announced Friday, May 31, 2013.
"Comedian" Dane Cook is being criticized for his decision to bar organizers of a benefit concert for Boston Marathon bombing victims from streaming or televising his performance.
Cook tweeted a brief apology Friday, saying he didn't want any of his new material to hit the airwaves yet. That hasn't pacified critics, including several who asked on Twitter why Cook chose to do a new set at a charity event.
Cook's publicist didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Thursday night's Boston Strong Concert featured acts including Aerosmith, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men. The show raised money for The One Fund Boston, a compensation fund established by Gov. Deval Patrick and Mayor Thomas Menino to help bombing victims.
This image provided by Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers shows a platinum Rolex watch with oyster and diamonds, one of the items being auctioned off Saturday June 1, 2013, in Las Vegas. The auction features precious metals, gems and jewelry confiscated by U.S. Marshals during federal criminal cases. Bidding for the watch begins at $93,500. Buyers can preview the gold and silver bullion, coins, jewelry and watches from federal crime cases Friday at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
Canadian singer Justin Bieber's former pet the capuchin monkey named Mally stretches out its tongue in its quarantine room at the new home in an animal park near Hodenhagen, northern Germany, Friday, May 31, 2013. Mally was seized by German customs on March 28 when the 19-year-old Canadian pop star failed to produce the required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich for a European tour.
Photo by Holger Hollemann
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A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican hypocrites?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
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